Kira Lum (Lumpyplume)

“And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“When midnight hushed the Earth, and lonely on the rooftops the night owls seemed to lament in melancholy notes, prolonged to a doleful cry, and then besides the riddling words of seers in ancient days, foreboding sayings made her thrill with fear.”
― Virgil (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“Pride's a joke that will make the stranger inside you laugh sooner or later.”
― Stephen King, Los ojos del dragón